Thread: My '27 T Sedan project

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Looking great! Keeep up the good work. Love that red on the body. Looking good man. Don Jr.

Thanks a lot Don Jr. that means a lot coming from you guys.

Got my brake lines bled and leak free with a little help from some friends, went a lot easier than I thought. We'll give it some time to see if any leaks develope.

After sitting around chatting for a while we decided to put the body on. It took some thinking not having a crane but the engine host, jacks and a lot of blocking seemed to do the trick. I have to clean up a bit to get some better pics and my garage seemed to instantley double in size! I gotta clean my camera off, there's bubbles everywhere.

Sean

Looking good, Sean....

If you're in the garage cleaning mood, when you're done with yours you can come start on mine!!! Heck, I'd even furnish the coffee and buy ya lunch!!!!

Your car looks great! Now no sitting in it making those weird engine noises
Ken

Too late....I forgot to wait until my friends left also.

Thanks,
Sean

Sean car is looking good . Some excellent attention and very well set up .

i just stumbled on this thread, and all i can say is wow! cool! i have a 31 2dr as well and i wonder if i might be able to quiz you on some things. i havent done much lately on mine cause im still researching.will be starting my project as soon as it warms up! once again thats a real nice hotrod ya got there. cheers.... kev.

Thanks for the input guys I really appreciate it.

Kev- feel free to ask away, if I can't answer it these guys here have been a great help to me. Of course after building a car like this it's easy for me to tell you what I might change to make it better. I'll tell you one thing, this post from Brian helped me a lot for my frame build:

http://www.clubhotrod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28617

Sean

Looking nice. Keep it up and you'll be on the road this spring with "real" motor noise.

Earl

It seems sooooo close, I got most of my plumbing done, had to make a bracket to mount my pump and regulator to so it wasn't hanging down below the frame where I had originally planned to put it. I also stuck the headers on for mock up (and to see how it looked). I'm running out of room but I think all I have left to mount is the tranny cooler.

I bought a set of Lokar throttle cable and kickdown cable the other day, do I have to take the pan off the tranny to get that KD cable on?? If anyone has a picture of how they did theirs I would appreciate it.

What do you guys think, Black or red grill shell??

Sean

I've been tinkering on my electrical system for a little while now. I got the back end done including the brake switch and neutral safety switch. The wires up front are all run I just need to mount all my senders and stuff. The interior is coming along but I had to do some painting and remount my steering assembly so my dash could get wired up. I did my gauges with a removable face so they're all hooked up, what a mess of wires there took some thinking to clean them up.

I did my ignition as well but I'm trying to search out why my ignition power has an extra wire spliced into it, any ideas where this goes???

Sean

Did some more wiring today, mostly running wires as I'm stuck on my fan connections and didn't get a chance to call EZ wire today.

I took a little break from it and got a shroud built and got my rad all mocked up. I still have to run the rods back to the cowl and I think I should make a lower support for the fan and shroud, they're bolted in four places to the grill shell but I don't think the fiberglass is too strong.

Turned out pretty tight with the new shell, only about a half inch to the pulley bolts. Might have to shave them down a bit.

Sean

I got all my electrical wired up and everything seems to work fine. I had my signal light indicators reversed so I was lucky they were plugs. I was stumped on my headlight wires, I bought some braided steel looms from Speedway but they were pretty cheaply made and I couldn't bend them far enough around without kinking so into the bin with them. I bought a bunch of copper tubing and some elbows and ran the wire through them, I thought I would polish them up a bit once everythings done.

I got my rad and grill etc. all mounted up with the hoses and such in place, it's solid as a rock, I think I might of over did it but with the clearance on the front pulley I didn't want it moving.

I'm trying to get it ready to start u and do the break in but I seemed to overlook my crankcase venting. I got the parts just need to add them on.

Sean

Sean it's looking great!

Nice - Nice! Great looking car. Can't wait until warmer weather so I can get back at my '29 Essex. Man, it's a loooonnng winter. Perley